The best way to fight terrorism is not through guns. It's through pens, books, teachers and schools.

Why is it, that giving guns is so easy, but giving books is so hard?

When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.

One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.

Extremists have shown what frightens them most. A girl with a book.

With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism.

Do not wait for me to do something for your rights. It's your world and you can change it.

I had 2 choices, be silent and get killed, or speak up and be killed, I chose the second option.

Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality.

We must believe in the power and strength of our words. Our words can change the world.

And if we want to achieve our goal, then let us empower ourselves with the weapon of knowledge and let us shield ourselves with unity and togetherness.

He looked the boy up and down as if he had never seen a child before and wasn't quite sure what he was supposed to do with one: eat it, ignore it or kick it down the stairs.

Because friendship is about laughing when the other person is joking to make you feel better. Even if you don’t find her joke all that funny.

I'd rather be judged on what I can do instead of who I'm not.

It is inconceivable that people are motivated solely or even mainly by external incentives.

Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds.

Sweet is the air with the budding haws, and the valley stretching for miles below Is white with blossoming cherry-trees, as if just covered with lighted snow.

My daughter is my greatest gift and, not to be corny, but my greatest teacher.

Ain't no mountain high enough, ain't no valley low enough, ain't no river wide enough, to keep me from getting to you.

I was not going to surrender to the status quo and corporate insistence that ordinary people have no power and influence.

The passion to interpret as madness that with which we disagree seems to have infected the best of contemporary minds.